Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic ReasonPeople rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers in Abysmal an astonishingly erudite critique of the way human thought and action have become deeply immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this cartographic reasoning allows the powerful to map out other people’s lives. |
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A Critique of Cartographic Reason Gunnar Olsson. A CRITIQUE OF CARTOGRAPHIC REASON Gunnar Olsson The University of Chicago Press Chicago & London gunnar olsson is professor emeritus of economic geography at Uppsala. ABYSMAL.
A Critique of Cartographic Reason Gunnar Olsson. gunnar olsson is professor emeritus of economic geography at Uppsala University. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2007 by The ...
... Geography, lured into the ranks less by the siren songs of power, more by the beauty of the Jean Arp-like models. Politics, however, was never my cup of tea, perhaps because I felt an urge to do it my way, perhaps because the zealots ...
... Geography below the waterline. The trustworthy truth is in fact that from knowledge of the physical outlay of a prison one may well predict the behavior of both the inmates and the wardens, but neither understand it nor explain it; what ...
... Geography at Uppsala keep rolling along, the nine months at the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford a privilege unasked for yet graciously facilitated by Dan Bränd- ström of the Tercentenary Fund of the Bank ...
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